Outward signs : the powerlessness of external things in Augustine's thought /
Cary's thesis is indicated in the subtitle - that Augustine's thought has no room for a concept of efficacious external means of grace, i.e., that neither word nor sacrament (both of which are outward signs) can convey to us the divine inner gift of grace. Therefore nothing external has th...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Expressionist semiotics and the powerlessness of the external
- part. 1. Words from which we learn nothing. Before words were signs : semiotics in Greek philosophy
- From scepticism to Platonism : the concept of sign in Augustine's earliest writings
- How words became signs : the development of Augustine's expressionist semiotics
- Why we learn nothing from words : the epistemology of Augustine's semiotics
- Believing persons : theological implications of Augustine's semiotics
- part. 2. Powerless sacraments. Sacred signs of inner unity : Augustine and medieval sacramental theology
- The efficacy of the church's baptism : against Donatists and Pelagians
- New Testament sacraments and the flesh of Christ.